DeceptichumBiden administration signals it will support push to hit ICC with sanctions
goferking (he/him)we’re going to attack those investigating war crimes
Do they think this is a winning strategy while also admitting Israel is causing a famine?
Israel is a state actor that has not signed on to the ICC, just like the US. Hamas is a non-state actor over which the ICC claims jurisdiction, just like the Taliban and any number of other terrorist groups. The US is really afraid of setting a precedent here that might impact it in the future.
apfelwoiSchoppenLong way of saying it is supporting and aiding genocide that it desperately wants the world to go back to ignoring like the last seven decades.
How specifically are US interests served by a genocide of Palestinians? They aren’t. The US doesn’t care about Palestine at all, but it would be better off if Israel weren’t doing the indefensible. The US just wants Israel as an ally to assist in projecting power in the Middle East.
I sympathize with the desire to end what Israel is doing, but the first step is understanding the national interests at play. It’s not an excuse for anything, but it’s necessary to understand the dynamics at play in order to try and change those dynamics.
Is your assertion that the US and Israel will no longer be allies if the US doesn’t support Netanyahu’s actions. Isn’t Israel’s government made up of a lot more than a single man’s actions and doesn’t Israel have a lot more to lose by losing us as an ally than we do by losing them? I say we call their bluff and let this murder go to jail. The Israeli government will clean up the mess he made and still be our ally.
The US and Israel are still allies even though the US hasn’t supported Netanyaho’s actions, so no. The fact that the US is still being an ally is the very evidence people are using to say the US supports Netanyaho.
Unfortunately, it’s not just Netanyaho as a bad apple. Netanyaho is massively unpopular, but the genocide is not. Israel’s actions in Gaza have broad support among citizens of Israel.